Beware, new email virus asks you to view friends’ Facebook photos
If you’re a Facebook user, and frankly who isn’t these days, be wary if you suddenly get an email asking you to look at new photos from a friend.
The email’s likely not from a friend at all, but rather it is a new malware-carrying Trojan horse that is making the rounds disguised as a notification from Facebook.
According to Sophos.com’s Naked Security, the emails pretend to come from Facebook but don’t. They invite users to look at new photos from a friend and ask users to click on an attachment to view the photos.
The problem is when users click on the attachment, they open up their computers to a ZIP file which contains malware and allows hackers to take over if it is a Windows machine.
Sophos Labs uncovered another Facebook malware campaign last month. In that attack, emails were made to look like a Facebook tag notification.
In those attacks, the emails contained links to compromised websites which were designed to attack computers with the Blackhole exploit kit, Sophos.com said in its report.
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/a...irus-asks-you-to-view-friends-facebook-photos
If you’re a Facebook user, and frankly who isn’t these days, be wary if you suddenly get an email asking you to look at new photos from a friend.
The email’s likely not from a friend at all, but rather it is a new malware-carrying Trojan horse that is making the rounds disguised as a notification from Facebook.
According to Sophos.com’s Naked Security, the emails pretend to come from Facebook but don’t. They invite users to look at new photos from a friend and ask users to click on an attachment to view the photos.
The problem is when users click on the attachment, they open up their computers to a ZIP file which contains malware and allows hackers to take over if it is a Windows machine.
Sophos Labs uncovered another Facebook malware campaign last month. In that attack, emails were made to look like a Facebook tag notification.
In those attacks, the emails contained links to compromised websites which were designed to attack computers with the Blackhole exploit kit, Sophos.com said in its report.
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/a...irus-asks-you-to-view-friends-facebook-photos
